Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-13
CORRR~PONaENGE.

A Trip to winston, North Carolina. To the Editor of the. JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 We left New Haven on the 9th of May ] and arrived at Winston on the 11th. We had visited Winston in "A. It was then small village. It's growth has been rapid. Churches, manufactories, handsome resi- dences and, above all, a large building for graded school, have been erected. The active spirit still manifested by the citizens to push forward other business operations and im- provements goes to show the fair prospect of it's becoming ultimately one of the finest cities of the State. The tobacco business is said to be the most lucrative. We can but pity the consumers of this unhealthy drug. Those both of the North and of the South have yearly a most improbable work to &C., oomplish. A summer Normal school was | held here this season.
 Salem (the old Moraviau settlement) is \ separated from Winston only by street. | They are called the Twin City. The acade- my for young ladies at Salem is one of the I oldest and most successful in the State. It | is eighty-five years old. We took the oppor- | tunity to visit several places around Wins | ton. Our first excursion took us in south- 1 westerly direction. We stopped at Le1ing- ton, Charlotte, Hebron and Lineolnton, I meeting very pleasant relatives and friends | everywhere. Returning to Winston, the | terminus of the railroad, again on the morn l ing of the 18th of July, we took the mail I coach for Mt. Airy, forty miles distant in 8 ! northwesterly direction. This was -roman- ! Sio r;1 all nd riv n1nfa dense wood all around, mountains to the right of us, mountains to the left of us, with ! the long Blue Ridge in front of us. On top of the high hills the view was magnificent. We staid all night at the foot of Pilot Noun | tain, with it's lofty knob which pilo.ed our 1 first pioneers through the wilderness; whence l its name.
 starting on we passed large fields of tobacco, corn and grain; met farmers with their long ' covered market wagons; some were lying down inside, the mules apparently guiding themselves. A man had one steer tackled in cart. It looked queer. We passed about fifty log cabins and called at six or eight postofices, where the mail was delivered A railroad is being built from Greensboro to Mt. Airy. Many convicts are at work upon it. The travelling road is in sorry condition, ditohy, sidling, stony, narrow, with tsees blown down across it. If piece
 
 on one side so over old and new roads, stumps and rocks we pushed on, arriving at Mt. Airy near sunset. Next morning we hired vehicle and drove ten miles out, where we met a cousin whom we had not seen for ifty-four years, and who is ninety one years old We spent week with him and talked of childhood days, of days in middle life and of life in old age. Many of the neighbors called to see us. The very people we wanted to gee, who live in the mountain region of the old North State. Good schools and good faithful ministers of the gospel are much needed here. On re- turning to Mt. Airy we met Dr. Johnston, of Winston, at the house of one of the elders of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Johnston had been preaching at Mt. Airy two success sive Sabbaths. The next Monday morning, leaving this pleasant family at Mt Airy, we again took the mail coach, accompanied by pr. Johnston, on our return to Winston The Dr. had been invited to preach at a small place on our way, about twelve miles from Mt Airy. The lady of the place who enter tained us said there were but few members of the Presbyterian order there, but she had sent word to the people around that there would be preaching in the early evening. At the time appointed she took 8 lighted lamp in her hand and went with her family and number of railroad men to the school house, but 8 little way off. Quite 8 number came in. Some said they had never heard Pres- byterian clergyman preach before. There are itinerant clergymen of the Methodist and Baptist denominations in that township. The coach passing the next morning took us in and we proceeded on our return to Winston arriving there about five o'clock in the afternoon. In all our lesser journeyings we found the people social and friendly. Now and then a little talk about the war came up. The phrase "war to preserve the Union" is. not popular there we must say. The war fought by the South was to free
 herself from the oppression of the North. And the war fought by the North was to
 still hold the South in her power. This talk now don't amount to much. Henceforth choose it. On the downfall of slavery there is but one voice, ''We are glad the slaves are free" The race question is a source of agi- tation all over the South. Neither the white race nor the colored people can wish to min- gle in social and domestic affairs. The two races cannot become one Let the negroes then, with industry and perseverance, and with all the means offered them for educa- tion, build up communities fer themselves; managing them to their own liking, out mastering tine Saxon race if they can. Spending few more days with our Winston friends, from whom we received many kind attentions which we shall not soon forget, we took the cars for home on the 8th of August, and with some delay reached New Haven on the 10th, having been absent little over three months. CAssANpRIA. give the following extract iron. let | ter which was written to me while at Wins l ton by an aged colored woman, whom l
 saw at Lexington, N. O., in 1874. Before ! and since her freedom she has been do- | mestic in different white families. She is ! over seventy years of age and now lives in | her own little house. She has always at | tended the Presbyterian church of the white people
 ! DEAR MRS. J.: seat myself to drop you rev lines am tolerable for an old person. nave or,
 ten thought of you and wished to see you put couo
 not see you. always inquired for you very partlc uarly when went to see your son. vlslt iin l every year and sometimes twice a year l consider
 him to be my best friend earth, and his children
 seem to be walking in his shoes to reward me, ana ! hope they walk with him in the road of Zion They
 have all professed to love the Lord but one Ithnk | of how used to nurse them on my lap. hope the Lord will bless and save them all in the kingdom or | heaven. met with your daughter yesterday | morning We did not wait for an introduction We | introduced ourselves I was very much pleased | with her. She called to me this morning. am very thankful for your kindness to me. Give my l best respects to Miss M. and Mir. H. I am mighty l glad that have seen all your children but one.
 send my love to Miss V., and have never forgotten | her kindness towards me, though have never seen
 her. have the dress she gave me laid away for my l burying dress. Good bye, kind friend. hope to | meet in heaven, JENNY HARGRAVR,